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- U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, completed June 4, 1917:
Name: Gustave Albert Strobel
Age: 25
Home Address: Plainview, Minnesota
Date of Birth: July 20, 1891
Natural Born Citizen
Birthplace: Mankato, Minnesota
Occupation: Agriculture instructor, Plainview HIgh School, Plainview, Minnesota
No dependents
Single
Caucasion
No prior military service
Does not claim exemption from the draft.
1930 Federal Census: Minnesota, Blue Earth Cty, Rapidan, Dist. 32:
Strobel, Gustave A., head, rents, $25, age 38, first married at age 31, born in MN, father born in Germany, mother born in MN, occupation: superintendent, public;
Elsie, his wife, age 29, first married at age 22, born in SD, father born in Germany, mother born in SD;
Claire, their son, age 11/12, born in MN, father born in MN, mother born in SD.
1940 U.S. Federal Census: Minnesota, Steele, Owatonna:
Strobel, Gustave A., head, 48, married, born in Minnesota, lived in same place 5 years earlier, county agent, Steele County;
Elsie V., wife, 39, married, born in South Dakota, lived in same place 5 years earlier;
Claire J., son, 11, single, born in Minnesota, lived in same place 5 years earlier.
Obituary: The Free Press, Mankato: August 11, 1995:
G. Albert “Al” Strobel
“Mankato--Retired educator G. Albert “Al” Strobel, 104, of Mankato, died Wednesday, August 9, 1995, at Mankato House Health Care Center.
Services are 10:30 a.m. Monday at Centenary United Methodist Church in the Multi Church
Center’s south sanctuary, the Rev. Nancy Wheeler Handlon officiating. Burial with military honors is at Glenwood Cemetery.
Visitation is 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday at Landkamer’s Johnson-Boman Funeral Home and continues one hour before services at the church.
Memorials are preferred to Hilltop Neighbors.
Mr. Strobel was born July 29, 1891, to John and Mary (Schostag) Strobel in Jackson. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Minnesota in agriculture and education administration. He married Elsie Miller in 1923 in Fairmont.
He taught agriculture at Stevens and Mankato. He served as drill sergeant during World War I in Spartenburg, S.C., France and Germany. He returned to the Mankato area to farm and teach before becoming an assistant county agent in Fairmont in 1920.
He was a superintendent of the Rapidan school system for 10 years. He served as county agriculture agent in Nobles and Steele counties until retiring to Mankato in 1940.
He was a member of VFW Post 950, American Legion Post 11 and Centenary United Methodist Church and was a charter member of the local Farmers Union. He enjoyed fruit-growing and experimenting and won Minnesota State Fair amateur fair grand championship awards 10 consecutive years.
Mr. Strobel is survived by a son and his wife, Dr. Claire and Janet of rural Mapleton; six grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; one sister, Helen Johnson of Mankato, and nieces and nephews. He was preceded in death by his wife, two sisters and three brothers.”
SSDI: #472 40 7025; Born 29 Jul 1891; died 9 Aug 1995; Res. 56065, Mapleton, Blue Earth, MN.
Minnesota Historical Society: Online database of Minnesota death records:
Strobel, Gustav Albert
Date of birth: 07/29/1891
Mother’s maiden name: Schostag
Date of death: 08/09/1995
County of death: Blue Earth
Name also spelled: Stroebel.
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